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Originally Posted by KevinBurke
Sorry, but no serious reader of ebooks can consider an LCD based reader as anything but an utter complete joke. So, yes, if you intend to read full books, made up of hundreds of pages, like I do, the Ipad is a shiny, flashy, multimedia piece of crap. I can't see how ebook readers can take it seriously since it can't compete on the same level. The thing is obviously not made for book reading but for multimedia and stuff. Steve Jobs' outlook is or was that "no one reads books anymore". That idiot couldn't be anymore wrong. Most of us here are a living testament against that proposition.
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I'm also a very serious reader of ebooks, and I do consider a LCD based reader very handy. I don't use it outside, that's when I use my e-ink based device. I've always read from backlit devices, and always read from them very happily. I only bought the e-ink because the battery life is better and it's larger than my PDA (which was my primary reading device, it has a transflective LCD screen). Outside I now use my BeBook Mini (instead of my PDA), but in bed I always use my JE100 (with a transparent LCD screen).
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Originally Posted by HarryT
eInk is certainly better for outdoor reading (you can't read a backlit LCD screen outdoors at all), and when I do read outdoors, naturally I use an eInk device (the BeBook Neo is my personal favourite).
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Not entirely correct. You can read backlit screens outside, as long as they are transflective.